Improvement in the base-pin and rammer of revolving pistols



W. ELLIOT.

Revolver.

Pmented Dec. 17,186].

Wine 88 .9

STATES PATENT OFFICE.

H. ELLIOT, on LPIJATTSBURG, NEW O Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,932, dated Dedembcr 17, 1861.

To all whom ii-may concern: Be it known that I, W. H. ELLIOTT, of Plattsburg,in the county of Clinton and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing and Arranging the Base-Pin and Lever of Revolving Pistols; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the drawings accompanying the same and the letters of reference marked there on, similar letters indicating the same parts in all the figures. v

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing and arranging the base-pin and '.lever of revolving pistols in relation to each other and to the other parts of the pistol that while its symmetry is improved and a greater degree of compactness is attained the basepin may be aiawnmna a the cyan-denie moved without disturbing any of the'other parts of the pistol thus making it, in these respects superior to other revolvers in which a loading-lever is used.

To enable others skilled in the art tomake and use my invention, Iwillproce'ed to describe its construction and operation.

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved pistol. Fig. 2 is a section of my improved pistol, at or, when the base-pin is drawn out.' Fig. 3 is a friction-spring for holding the base-pin. Fig. 4 is another view of the same. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the base-pin. Fig. 6 is a section of the same through the head. Fig. 7 is an elevation of the lever. Fig. 8 is a section of the same.

a a represent the frame; 11, the barrel; 0, cylinder; d, lever; e,'base-pin; 6, head of the same; h, link connecting plunger 2' to the lever; m, friction-spring; n, pivot fastening thelink to the plunger; 0, pivot fastening the lever to the link; r, pivot fastening the lever to the frame; 8, point of spring on, which acts upon the base-pin; s, notches in the base-pin to receive point e; a, groove cut in the back of the'lever to receive the base-pin; 1), thin portion of the head each side of the body of the base-pin; w, hammer, located in the center of the "no in the rear of the barrel.

When the base-pin is drawn out forihepurpose of removing the cylinder from theiframe it occupies thejgroove in the back of the-loading 1 lever, and its head projects out at each side of l'ortable hold forthe thumb and finger in handling it. By providing space between the lever and barrel for the base-pin it is unneces sary to disturb the'lever iii-removing the eylinder from the frame. By' this-arrangement all the difiiculties that arise from displacing other parts of the pistol when it is only necessary to remove .thecylinder,are-avoided."

These advantages may be had in pistols where;-

side locks are used without providing spacebetween the barrel and leverfor the base-ping;

"as-uietase-piu" rustentases nfiiy bedrawn out atthe'rear of the frame; but in my pistol, while I retain the"ad-vantage ofplacing the hammer in the center of the'frame behind the cylinder, the base-pinean bepassed forward out of the cylinder without first displacing the lever or removing anyportion of the frame.

. By providing the groove in the side of the lever next to the barrel for the reception of'the base-pin the form and symmetry of the pistol.- are at least uninjured, while the strength of. the lever, compared with its weight,- is increased. ver or barrel for the reception otthe base-pin,

the advantages of removing the cylinder by drawing out the base-pin in front without displacing other parts of the pistol could not be attained without leaving an open space between the lever and barrel equal to the diame,"

ter of the base-pin, which'would re'nderzth'e l g pact,and.alsoseriously injure pistol less com its appearance. 3

I do not make the otifso {con i structi'n'g a pistol that-the base-=pin-;pm y;g.be1-

drawn out forth'e purpose trrem'ovi gtne oyl-j inder from the frame without distu'rbingother-;.

. parts of the pistol; nor do I claim; drawing out the base-p'iniin front for thesarne purpose when employed with a; he center of the frame in the! but Without a groove either in the. le-

miner pineal iii the? 5 the cylin'der;

What I do claim, and wish to'haive secured a as it is passed forward but of the cylinder,

to me by Letters Patent, is-

1. So constructing and arranging the basepin 6 and lever d in relation'to each other and to the barrel that the base-pin maybe drawn outin front without first displacing the lever or any portion of the frame, when these devices are employed with a hammer which is located in the center of the frame in the rear of the cylinder, as herein set forth. a

2. Providing a groove, 'll, in lever d, so as to afl'ord space for the reception of the base-pin as and for the purpose herein specified. V

3. Cutting away the projecting portions of the head of the bnse'pin, as represented at 'v '12, when the base-pin so formed is employed with a grooved lever,-d, as and for the purpose set forth.

W; H. v ELLIOT. 

